Post here if you want to moderate I Love Football

Gonna need to clear any of these with other Site Admins first, but I think we probably only need about three board mods on here, plus myself and WmC as sitewides who will doubtless be reading a lot.

I've never SBed anyone in my life - despite occasionally grumpy and challopsy exterior, I never follow through on it, so not v. likely to go round abusing powers. I'm never off the bloody internet either, so often around to do boring clean-ups.

yo.

I'll be the holy ghost then.

surely dmac?!

I don't particularly want to, btw, just offering in case you're short and need the numbers made up.

I don't particularly want to, btw

basic requirement for modding imo

how much of a time-commitment is it?

swygart seems to have his head screwed on too btw

lol xp

plucky and ambitious Scottish bid for wider acceptance to be thwarted at first hurdle, obv.

ailsa would be good imo

she shd be fast-tracked thru, yes

ailsa-swygart-ismael sounds good to me.

how much of a time-commitment is it?

haha

ailsa
swygz (assuming he's interested)
sam
ismael
dmac

^^^ fine with any of these.

fwiw being a sub-board mod is pretty much however much time commitment you want to put into it; your main abilities are locking threads, yellowcarding ppl and banning ppl from the subboard and given that this posting population seems to interact in a manner analogous to the NFL crew, it's likely most of these activities will happen for board-approved lols anyway

i barely ever see wbs around here anymore which is a shame because that dude should be in a ilx hall of fame

given that this posting population seems to interact in a manner analogous to the NFL crew, it's likely most of these activities will happen for board-approved lols anyway

Which is why mod powers shouldn't be given to people who would do board-banning for lols (disclaimer: have no idea what goes on on the NFL board)

Last guy to get yellowcarded on NFL got slapped for taking a dump on our cookie parade, so it's definitely not done for the lol's.

if you want lol modding it's got to be lj and ronan

I think "board-approved" is getting skipped over in my post

The moderation style of sub-boards is whatever the posters want it to be

no spurs supporting mods pl

Think mod style should be broadly the same as ILE and ILM fwiw.

^^^ sepp blatter

my modding days are behind me ever since the coup-d'etat on 1p3.

Gonna need to clear any of these with other Site Admins first, but I think we probably only need about three board mods on here, plus myself and WmC as sitewides who will doubtless be reading a lot.

― Matt DC, Friday, September 24, 2010 5:28 AM (4 hours ago)

hahaha, wait waht

I'm not gonna be reading any of this soccerball stuff

ailsa
swygz (assuming he's interested)
sam
ismael
dmac

^^^ fine with any of these.

― caek, Friday, September 24, 2010 5:30 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Co-sign, fwiw

i'll co-sign this also before this thread goes off at a tangent

still not decided?

Onimo is usually the voice of reason on SPL threads so I'd nominate him, but fine with any of the choices so far.

can they not just all be mods? it's not like any of them will abuse the system.

can everybody be mods?

I'd abuse my powers to remove Charlie Mulgrew from any Celtic line-ups posted.

I'm happy with the names already put forward but I'll happily step up if we were short of numbers.

can everybody be mods?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwgg--Ou-8

SPL threads noted for their unreasonableness, yes.

I'd abuse my powers to remove Charlie Mulgrew from any Celtic line-ups posted

If you could do this in real life as well, I'd vote for you.

Okay then, Ismael, Sam and Ailsa should now have magical admin buttons...

http://celtic.theoffside.com/files/2007/08/celebration.jpg

bah. I shall use my newfound powers to fix that later :-)

darragh's away this weekend iirc, cd we arrange an honorarium for him when he comes back. only seems fair.

http://www.conti-online.com/generator/www/uk/en/contisoccerworld/themes/02_fanzone/03_history/02_crazy_stories/img/1986_arg_finale_maradona_457_uv.jpg

matt you disgusting sell-out, ronan: mod of oats would have been amazing

ill be a mod. since this is a subject i find trivial and ridiculous i promise ill use my powers to annoy posters i dislike, shut down legitimate discussion and otherwise bring the lols. & if i get to be mod once a month ill let k8 log-in on my account and just fsu

what the fuck is under maradona's shirt? a cat?

10 kg of heroin iirc

fwiw being a sub-board mod is pretty much however much time commitment you want to put into it; your main abilities are locking threads, yellowcarding ppl and banning ppl from the subboard and given that this posting population seems to interact in a manner analogous to the NFL crew, it's likely most of these activities will happen for board-approved lols anyway

― bang (HI DERE), Friday, September 24, 2010 2:28 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

i wd nail this so hard

can't believe caek doesn't believe in me

no sir, he was shouting "haaaistory mayne, haaaaaistory mayne"

xp first hit for 'maradona world cup trophy' gave me a story about narcs in Colombia finding a replica made out of cocaine

Wait did we get made into mods then? How does this work? How can I temp ban/yellow card/etc.? (Not that I will!)

Also I assume we shall use this thread as a rolling one for moderation requests or enquiries?

Click on 'admin', which has magically appeared at the end of the menu down the bottom. How do you edit posts though?

Feel like I should issue a couple of yellow cards already, stamp my authority early on.

bring it bitch

sub-board mods can't edit posts IIRC because you need to directly modify HTML

You can delete posts though.

how you slags hold a card imo

http://www.ussoccer.com/~/media/60AE11FBFFA74D90A0774A69CE34483E.ashx?w=401&h=301

*settles down*

can a mod pls move Major League Soccer over here, I don't want to start a new thread until next season

we simple mods do not seem to have the power dan. unless matt is willing to do so, i guess you are just going to have to deal with it being in ile until next season.

or.... another site mod could do it for you

ha or that. (was just assuming matt was our go-to guy to bug for these things.)

he's most likely to follow this board yeah, but stuff like that is pretty much regular site mod business

thx

could a kind sitewide please move CONCACAF (soccer) over to this board? thank you very much, it is appreciated

^^^

using a hhellish'surf the nnett from atv in ur hotel room' conntraptoin, so not sticking round or anything. also on romantic weekend, so had to rn a bath and poour a triple whiskey to buy thisone mmessage fuck this keyboard sucks

donn't think posterrs that wind up other football posterrs shoudl be modss, happy with nominees, and not interreested mmy self ta fuck keyboard SUCKS

lol

ha triple whisky you say? enjoy the weekend.

donn't think posterrs that wind up other football posterrs shoudl be modss

pssh, being a football fan is all about winding up others. and i don't think we've ever gone far past 'heated discussion'.

thanks for the move, mod
ahaha darragh

hahaha ILF begins ^ here

v much hoping that darragh maintains this new ILF posting style.

Missed opportunity for "hot chick waiting in bed" reference imo

ah fuck opengoal.jpg
cross chick waiting in mmy bath

15 hours after you ran it? RIP smooth skin.

hotel, innit? Wouldnt waste the money on water heating back home. Just out of bath btw

I feel like I could make some joke about the Irish going on holiday for the luxury of bathing. But I'll refrain.

its no joke its brutal economic fact

donn't think posterrs that wind up other football posterrs shoudl be modss

which is why the mods are Madam Relate-Everything-To-Celtic, Young Master Wengerlove and Sir Don't-Envy-Me-I-Only-Write-For-Run-Of-Play

I look forward to depositing messes for you to tidy <3

tbh the first thing i'd be moderating is my own ridiculous and hysteric kneejerk winding posting tendencies, and yknow fuck that.

Anyway, I dont see mod modding being necessary. Whens the last time intervention in that vein was needed on a football thread?

My moderating style is going to involve tidying shit up if it needs it, and otherwise doing nothing. Though Louis is sailing THIS CLOSE >< to a lol yellow card now :-)

Astronomy Now's a good gig, don't knock it

:D @ both of ye

Stupid question. When I'm logged in, youtubes and pictures turn into links. Is this the price to pay for being a moderator (it doesn't happen on any other boards, and doesn't happen if I log out)?

yes. i think some mods have two accounts for that reason, one for modding, one for banter.

Yeah it's the price you pay, there is a magic way you can make them appear by changing a URL slightly, but I've forgotten because I'm not a big fan of image-heavy threads. Ask Stet, he should be able to tell you.

Cheers Matt.

btw ILF is currently 23rd in a Google search for i love football

we can do better than that

It's 19th for "i love football"

do we want it to do better than that?

we want first place

^ ridsdaleesque ambition, will be the death of us

How'd we get so high, so fast? We are only just hitting our 100th hour by my reckoning.

http://www.worldalmanac.com/blog/100hours.jpg

Doodle 4 Google are quaking in their boots

I think we might come to regret a high Google ranking.

i resent the accusation that i'd be a "lol mod", just because i lose the rag on footie threads does not mean i would delete you all or ban anyone! i don't want to be a mod tho.

^ would be a good mod fwiw, and i think i even said that when threatened with him before

i need a job tho, what does it pay? it's either mod or sit in my room avoiding my flatmates and drinking tea from a mug emblazoned with the logo of my dearly departed job.

this is like when frodo didn't know to take the ring or not that one time

pays so well that I now hire a team of flunkeys to post for me

football loving monkeys

I think we might come to regret a high Google ranking.

Not if it means a Helm's Deep-style resistance against hordes of Orcish randomers who like swears and "comedy" racism, while the banhammers tinkle merrily away against their Millwall helmets.

yeah I mean that's gonna be fucking good times, and it will only serve to bring us closer together

swears are good, comedy racism can go fuck off. YOU READING THIS, GOOGLERS?

Might regret singling out Millwall there tho.

"i love football", i mean, why search for that, it's as unspecific as you can get. i'm not worried and i LOVE googlers. PREMIER LEAGUE GUESS PAPERS NUMBER ONE SITE ON NET

MILLWALL CAN KISS MY ASS YOU HEAR ME

con suelo are you jergins btw

y, but i will change my name again shortly

it's like a mystery...waiting to happen

also hi

hi! i love football btw, quality board

you and dan m are valuable ambassadors and your wisdom has been noted

not forgetting EZ Snappin

i was thinking of doing an ilf hall of fame where once a month we nominated 10 players, do a poll and whoever wins gets their place in it - would this work or no?

hmmm

sounds like work

could you nominate players again and again

also joek noms/votes

Ha yeah, I like the idea. One a month, losers can't get renominated in that calendar year, something like that.

ILF cult players presumably, no boring Maradonas or Peles? Well maybe Maradona might get in.

hmmph, see the nine players not getting in the first time would manifestly be worthy of further noms though. nightmare!!!!

It's an exclusive club though, Le Tiss would just have to wait his turn outside while Kitson and Lamps talk politics in the VIP area

hoddle le tiss and peter osgood honorary entries on day 1 surely

THUDD and Daniel Sturridge need to bypass voting right off.

xpost

Noms fraught with danger tbh - could see Henke buried under a lol Dave Kitson vote and being left out for years.

Should do like a 3 months wait or something if they didn't get in the first time

outrageous

really, you'd need a noms thread, a poll of 50-100 say and then to normalise results using a points system, with the top ten gettign inducted immediately

I think the ILM style nominations type poll would be very very dull when it comes to football chat. Straight automated poll or nothing really, but I don't really see the point of the excercise.

clutching at orgafun straws already eh lads?

yeah in total disarray tbh

Might be better just asking everyone to rank their top 50 player of all time, no noms, then just seeing who comes out on top? Then post the results and point and laugh at folk/discuss rationally, whatever?

We've a small enough population we could have 5 noms each and wipe out the doublers to leave an undisputed HoF

an undisputed HoF isn't really a HoF though

yeah I'm kind of agreeing with Matt DC tbh - a bit of a pointless exercise

with ailsa here, i think the book/tv/movie poll format could be a great thread idea

ilx is a pointless exercise

tbf

solitary posts

kinda lol but mostly sad, for ALL OF US

with ailsa here, i think the book/tv/movie poll format could be a great really boring thread idea

omg a boring thread, what'll we do

talk about Spurs and Arsenal, probably

i mean if you'd like it could be arranged, but rly we have threads for that now

see this is why i just suggested the idea instead of just doing it

Well, just do it then!

(I'm not suggesting we actually *do* my idea, just that it's maybe a better discussion generator and format than just straight-up nomming and polling if you want to do something like this - which I'm taking to be "rag on everyone else's favourite players" obv)

Well I still think it's a great idea and would work fine as you suggested it. It'd be basically a rolling poll series for lobbying for Mourinho v Ossie v Gary Neville or whoever each month, plenty of scope for challops there.

Let it fill up slowly too, 'getting in' rather than 'being in' is obviously the thing here, and we've obviously all got plenty of time or our hands. Plus exclusivity is kind of what a hall of fame's all about, no?

Hm, just musing that there'd be forty-odd guys in there now if it'd been running since I've been hanging round these parts, and I'm no grizzled veteran like your ailsas.

Not just for players either, I want The Glazers and World Cup Willie getting a fair crack at this.

Oi! (actually, in footballer years, I am totally a veteran)

Ok well I don't think I'm going to start the thread because I think I've confused myself with the dynamics of it.

You sure? Because I may have to pilot this myself then. Can't let a good idea expire untested.

go for it! :)

Okay, will spend tonight drafting rules & consulting, and seek noms in the morning.

Quick question. This not being able to see photos and youtubes is bothering me. If I create a new account just for modding, would a kindly mod transfer my mod privileges to that account instead so that I can just use my regular account for the most part? Who do I need to let know about this - Matt?

There's an 'I Moderate A Sub Board' board which you now have access to where that question came up - there were a couple of solutions iirc

Footcelsior

needs to be renamed to

THIS IS THE jol WHERE WE SUM UP ILX excelsiors

ILX ILF

Can't rename threads, you need a site-wide for that. Matt?

lets not pre-empt it, the expectations at newcastle seem high for the dutch bottle merchant

hence the need for appropriate lol thread as it all goes to shit

Can someone with proper mod powers lock last season's SPL thread, please?

CONSPIRACY!

Oh wait, I can do it myself, I was looking in the wrong place. As you were...

I could delete all this to make myself look less stupid...